First Lang Acquisition

(4 Credits)

This course provides a non-exhaustive overview of the current state of the field of First Language Acquisition. We focus on: (a) current learning theories and methodologies, (b) state of the art understanding within domains of language in development, broadly construed as Symbols, Structures and Meanings, and (c) dynamics and change over time in mental grammars and their outputs. For each of these (a-c), we aim to get some sense of the history of the area, as well as the current relevance.